AI is a transformative technology with enormous economic, scientific and social benefit, one that is driving the fourth industrial revolution. Advanced machine learning algorithms are already dramatically changing how private and public institutions function, by automating numerous cognitive processes, generating new efficiencies, and enabling deeper, data-derived insights and predictions. Despite...
Category: Mind and machines
Stories we tell, machines we build: a talk at the An{0}ther {AI} in Art summit in NY
I was invited to deliver the keynote talk at the An{0}ther {AI} in Art Summit in New York, at the New Museum on April 24, 2019. This is the unabridged version of my talk. In 1649 Rene Descartes, the most famous philosopher in Europe at the time, accepted the invitation...
Work, Love, Polis: a talk at the National Library of Norway
On December 5, 2018 I was honoured with an invitation to open the "Fantastic Futures AI Conference" organized by the National Library of Norway, in Oslo. I put together my talk like a triptych of words; "Work", "Love" and "Polis". For each of the words I used a story to...
AI Explained
This TechCrunch video explains AI and makes reference to my book "In Our Own Image". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiXwXg2CUWM&feature=youtu.be
21 Century Business Review Interview
"21 Century Business Review" is issued by the Nanfang Media Group, and is a monthly business journal under the 21 Century newspapers and magazines system. It was founded on 1st September 2004, and has attracted over 1 million readers by now with its "one journal + one website + APP...
The Chinese edition of “In Our Own Image”
Today I received copies of the Chinese Edition of my book "In Our Own Image: the history and future of Artificial Intelligence" sent by my Chinese publisher China Citic Press. To celebrate the arrival of the books a good friend send me this, in Chinese: 正如中国有一句讲到:要想富先修路 - it means (I m...
The fallacy of thinking intelligence as software
During the Enlightenment the human body was thought of as a kind of clock. That was because the dominant technology of the day was mechanical engineering.Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum clock in the 1600s, and in the following decades and centuries, all across Europe, the miraculous ticking of interconnected gears...
The impact of AI on work
[slideshare id=66410297&doc=fourthirzarkadakis-160926075257] This is my full deck on ideas about the future of work as the fourth industrial revolution changes the economic and social landscape.
AI and the C-suite
Full transcript of my interview with Lisa Morgan for her Information Week article. Generally speaking, how aware of AI does the average C suite have to be these days and why? What should their attitude about it be? The C-suite is becoming increasingly aware of the impact that AI will have...
The trouble with deep neural networks
In October 2015, and in relative secrecy, a major milestone in Artificial Intelligence was reached. AlphaGo, an algorithm developed by Google to play the game Go, beat Fan Hui, the Go champion of Europe, by five games to zero. The results, as well as an insight to the algorithm, were...